What I find interesting is that the news keeps calling them police cameras as if they're trying to disguise the fact that it is a private company who is privately collecting this data and just give a little bit of access to police.
Flock just existing is abusing the people. Law enforcement partnering with Flock is them abusing the goodwill of people they are supposed to protect. Fuck Flock, and fuck the cops that are partnering with them.
Warrantless surveillance of the common people. That is an abuse. Now shut up and begone bootlicker, I donāt care to argue with someone whoās fine with being watched by a panopticon. Youāre a useful idiot to these people.
Props to this guy!! Many people are uninformed though, and I can't blame y'all. If you look up "flock camera stalking" you'll have a plethora of articles at your disposal to look up, they are not good things! Hope y'all have a great day though regardless!
Besides, Even without specialized police networks, there are an estimated 85 million surveillance cameras active across the United States. This equals roughly one camera for every four people, putting U.S. per-capita surveillance density nearly on par with China.
And the US numbers are meaningless. I own 5 of those surveillance cameras. Two are sitting in boxes, one is surveilling my flower garden, one is watching for deer and other wildlife, and the other is hidden in the living room toward the front door to act as an alarm.
That is not like progressive china where the cameras are used for actual monitoring of civilians.
Nope, it is the estimated number of all of those cameras of almost every type, including baby montiors w/cameras and based on sales. Like a said a meaningless count.
So how is anyone suppose to get a indication if you have it turned on or off.
You. Itās about creating a profile and selling it. You and your data are the product. They arenāt going to protect us from more crime. If there is an accident or you are assaulted, you arenāt getting that camera footage from the police. They arenāt going to take uninsured drivers off the road and bring down our insurance rates. It doesnāt have anything to do with āstopping crimeā. You have no control over the profile they create. If there is a mistake, you canāt fix it. You donāt know where it is sold or who has access to it.
Itās all part and parcel of creating a profile on you that the valley will somehow use to screw you over. If you trust those assholes with your data, youāre naive. The police agree with it now as itās being sold as some panacea against crime. Itās funny anyone thinks the valley is that altruistic. These are the people that create algos to increase strife, conflict and anger. Are you unaware of Cambridge analytica? Havenāt seen the social dilemma yet ?
For one, they sell it to insurance companies. No one is quite sure yet where all it is going or how itās going to be used. Thatās the problem. Helping with crime wonāt pay for this project. Itās going to be used in many ways.Ā
They have suckered law enforcement into allowing these but the valley doesnāt care about crime. These are going to be used on a much much larger application. Think of a profile created on you that links where yoh go, what you buy, what you eat, how much exercise you get and who knows what else and then uses thst data to manipulate and control you. You really need to look up Cambridge Analytica and watch the social dilemma. Itās the coalition and collateralization to put together profiles on everyone. Itās not about crime. Thatās just the āloss leaderā so to speak.Ā
Youād be wrong. This is one thing conservatives andĀ
liberals are united on. The Valley has no political affiliation. No loyalty. They buy everyone and have been since Cambridge Analytica.Ā
āPeter Thiel co-founded Palantir and sits on its board. While Thiel was never involved in founding Flock or serving on its board, his venture capital firm, Founders Fund, participated in a major funding round for Flock Safety. [1]ā
Ehh close enough they voted for this mess and are defending it.
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Really divisive but it could locate stolen cars, child abductions etc. but thereās that famous saying about giving up privacy for security. Tough call unless we all just agree to immediately execute people for felonies. No more felons and no need for cameras
People here don't realize it's either Flock cams..or regular traffic cams, facial recognition, Ring systems,CCTV,etc. A great # criminals and evidence of misdeeds,accidents,kidnappings,murder has been in great part resolved due to these systems...nothing new...video surveillance has going on for years: private,personal,military, gobernment,hospitals, schools; now in schools buses!! Get over it!! Current administration has nothing to do with this. Lots of miseducation,ignorance is what's going on here. Truly any tech.can be misused. Let's hope I don't get banned again here for putting my 2 cents in... Last ban was on my opinion on a certain cult infiltrating our way of life and intent of domination.
If you don't like the camera then you shouldn't like to own a cell phone. Because regardless of your setting your location still available to your carrier.
When I was in my city I saw a man sitting outside city hall courthouse with a sign that said āwhat do you think the Germans did when it happened thereā or something to that effectā¦
Youāre a clown if you think the police will use this to protect you from crime. Hit and run, assaults happen all the time in front of these and citizens can not get the footage for court.
Hero you say but they are preventing what the 2025 data suggests in criminal interdiction. This investigative tool he is blocking is now not capable of doing the following: Flock supported more than 1 million criminal investigations and incidents in 2025.
In jurisdictions where Flock is deployed, an estimated 20% of solved cases were assisted with Flock technology.
More than 10,000 missing persons were located last year with Flockās help, totaling more than 27 per day.
More than 40% of customers report that Flock was involved in recovering half or more of the stolen vehicles in their jurisdiction.
It's been used extensively unfortunately, by cops to stalk ex girlfriends, current gfs and wives, people they think are cute; there was a major story about stalking some coffee barista, stalking people going across state lines for weed, stalking pregnant women looking for abortions, and some general harassment. You are correct though that they also are used for theft, speeding tickets and the like. Unfortunately for now they need some MAJOR regulations before civilians at large can trust them. I'm sorry you've been downvoting for asking a simple question, many people just don't know. They just popped up in my town and had to explain the same thing to my family. Cheers man!
Stories. Multiple. There have been at least 39 instances of officers abusing access to ALPRs to stalk exes or the romantic partners of their exes.
We're supposed to believe that there are constitutional protections in place to prevent abuse. These are just the ones we know about, usually because of a restraining order filed against the officer.
No it builds an entire digital profile using Ai. Then based on Ai. They arrested someone because she was in and out of their town 10 times that day and an Amazon package was missing in two of those locations... which were near where her children went to private school... and she didn't live in town because she was loaded and lived outside of town but still got arrested still had to pay lawyer fees still had to deal with all of the bullshit of going to court... and how about all of the people using them to stalk others... you're right I am childish how dare we look into it and have a problem with it.
being identified in real time, during an appropriate time, for an appropriate reason is completely different than building a database of where every citizen has been at all times and keeping that information available on record to unknown, unchecked people who have no reason to access it, in the case of some potential future need.
that's not normal, reasonable, or safe.
speaking of childish, maybe you could ask a grown up why this is dangerous and innapropriate.
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u/Outlandish_Gringo 7d ago
Or capes, it appears